Facilities

Design and construction of range of electro-mechanical systems and prototypes for special applications.

The lab offers the capability for analysis, design (electrical, electronic, mechanical) and construction of many types of systems and equipment for a range of applications.

Some of the recent systems completed in our lab for various projects and applications are:

1) Shaker facility for determining the strength of materials and bonds under severe shaking and vibration (right) with the following perameters:

      α) Frequency of vibration: up to about 1500Hz

      β) Vibration amplitude: ± 3cm

      γ) Acceleration: up to ± 10000g

The facility has been used for determining the strength of joints and bonds in space technology materials to determine their capabiliuty of withstanding severe vibration during take-off.

2) Facility for carrying our controlled solid-state reactions under vacuum  at temperatures up to about 1000^οC (right). The facility is used for studies such as:

    α) Thermal treatments of sensitive materials, under vacuum

    β) Exothermic reactions under vacuum as being carried out to determine the conditions for sintering regolith for In-situ resource utilisation (ISRU) planetary exploration studies. It has been found that many solid-state reactions behave completely differently if carried out under vacuum rather than under some atmosphere.